St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-18
oAKLAND's "DEsDEMONA."

She Stained Her Face and Hid
Her Blonde Hair to Marry a
Negro.
New York Sun.
The marriage of Farmer Winters
daughter Jenny, of Oakland, to a
mulatto is curious in its way, because it
looks as if the girl had stained her face
and hid her blonde hair so as to pass for
mulatto herself and deceive the cler-
gyman about her race, as she did about
her age. She is sixteen and the bride
groom twenty-one. He is James Mann,
farmland on the big Havemeyer
stock farm near Darlington. The cere-
mOny was performed on July 80 by the
Rev. Mr.. Mansfield, rector of the Sufern
Episcopal church, and the couple are
living in little house on the Ridge,
about half mile east Of Darlington.
Jenny is the daughter of Richard
Winter, of Oakland, large property
holder, who is now in i'll health, and is
about thirty-five years old. He was
found yesterday at Darlington, at the
home of Mrs. Edward Rogers, mar
ried daughter.
81 do not know when my daughter
Jenny became acquainted with Mann,
but do not think she had known him
over month. She frequently visited
the Havemeyer farm. She left home
two weeks ago to-day in the morning,
and did not return at night. l sup
posed she was here at my daughters.
Next day I heard the rumor that she
was married to Mann, and was living on
the ridge. / went to Mann'S brothers
house, where it was said they were
staying, and, sure enough, found Jenny.
l asked her to come home with me, and
she said she couldn't. asked her why,
and she made no answer. Meantime a
little colored girl had gone to find
Mann, and brought him home. I told
him l had come for Jenny, and he said l
couldn't take her. / asked him what he
meant, and he then went to another
room and returned with the marriage
certificate. l offered Jenny a farm to
leave him, but she would not"
a negro servant, who had been list
ener, chimed in with the assertion that
''Mann is nice young fellow, and his
color is the only thing against him."
Rev. Mr.. Mansfield, of Suffern, is a
tall, vigorous man, whose beard is just
turning from brown to white. He was
found seated on fence near the rectory
watching a game of base ball. He said
that he had performed the ceremony,
but he asserted that the girl was a
mulatto, or at least had negro blooo in
her veins. On being assured that such
was not the case, he expressed much
surprise, and said he was confident that
the witnesses to the ceremony, members
of his household. were under the same
impression as himself. Jenny, accord
ing to Mr.. Mansfield and the parish reg
lister, said that she was eighteen years
old. Her father says that she was six
teen in July.
''Of course, if she had said she was
only sixteen said Mr.. Mansfield to the
Sun reporter, Il would not have mar
ried them. Until you called was ig-
norant of the fact that the girl was
white. While am sorry that the thing
has occurred, the legality of my act can
not be questioned, and I am not re-
sponsible if the girl lied to me con-
corning her age"
Excusing himself for few moments
the clergymae scaled the base ball field
fence like an athlete, and room found in
the crowd one of the witnesses of the
marriage, who declared that he thought
Jenny was darby.
Mann, though light colored, is of de-
cided negro type. He told Mr.. Winter
that he loved his wife and intended to
treat her kindly.